(May 21, 2014, 01:47 am)KiwiSue49 Wrote: 1. In utorrent (version 1.8.2 for purposes of being with "new" thebox)
'Status' shows 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'

Have just noticed though that people are successfully downloading from me.

So should I worry to much about the Status message?

that could be a status of just one of the trackers most likely the TPB's tracker,
you are still announced on the other trackers so people still can connect to you,
or even if that's the status of all of the trackers you are still announced on DHT,
and people are still able to connect to you

(May 21, 2014, 01:47 am)KiwiSue49 Wrote: 2. Search results with the tags I used don't really work except for the word
'Highlander'. I had quite a few tags.

To my knowledge, Search is restricted to the torrent title. In your case,
"Highlander/Romance/Time Travel ebooks (epub and mobi) KiwiSue49 "
It doesn't digg much deeper than that as far as I know.

(May 21, 2014, 01:47 am)KiwiSue49 Wrote: Would it have been better to create 10 different torrents, one for each author?

Note: I made sure that the tags were all on one line, with commas in a word document before I copypasted them.

Usually ppl go for book collections, rather than single titles.
A set of say 5-10 books by same author as one torrent is certainly not a bad idea. Helps searching too.
Grouping by a theme/genre (biography,romance,classics) is another option.
You can search 'Collection' under E-books; you will find many such.